A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in the Voynich manuscript, a new study shows. The finding suggests that an ...

A new theory argues the famous Voynich Manuscript, often referred to as “the most mysterious book in the world,” may have ...

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...

The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s. The ...

A new study suggests the Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s, could be a type of encrypted ...

The 15th century Voynich Manuscript (also known as the Cipher Manuscript) is considered the most mysterious text in the world, and we seem no closer to decoding it that when it was first purchased by ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

A mysterious manuscript dating back to the 15th century could be a type of encrypted message, a new study has suggested. The ...